Just found out about this year’s Pulitzer Prize book winners. Interesting choices. Fiction always seems something unexpected, something that is usually off my radar. For those who care about awards, here’s the list.
Fiction
"Awarded to Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout (Random House), a collection of 13 short stories set in small-town Maine that packs a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character, blunt, flawed and fascinating."
"Awarded to The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company), a painstaking exploration of a sprawling multi-generation slave family that casts provocative new light on the relationship between Sally Hemings and her master, Thomas Jefferson."
"Awarded to American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, by Jon Meacham (Random House), an unflinching portrait of a not always admirable democrat but a pivotal president, written with an agile prose that brings the Jackson saga to life."
"Awarded to The Shadow of Sirius, by W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press), a collection of luminous, often tender poems that focus on the profound power of memory."
"Awarded to Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday), a precise and eloquent work that examines a deliberate system of racial suppression and that rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity."
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